Cibo Matto Tantalize Taste Buds With Deliciously Decadent Beats On The Santa Monica Pier [REVIEW+PHOTOS]
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THE REST OF OUR COVERAGE OF SANTA MONICA PIER’S TWILIGHT CONCERT SERIES Close your eyes and picture this: you’re on a beach, the cool breeze kissing your skin and gently tossing your hair gently….
City and Colour’s Acoustic Solo Set At The Hollywood Bowl Was Right Where It Belonged [REVIEW+PHOTOS]
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] It’s always a pleasure to see Dallas Green perform under the alias City and Colour. Using a tenderly soulful voice to emote passionately fragile folk melodies, it can be hard to image Dallas used to be the guitarist and…
PJ Harvey’s Return To L.A. At A Sold Out Shrine Expo Was Triumphant [REVIEW+PHOTOS]
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] Early this year, PJ Harvey released her 9th studio album, “The Hope Six Demolition Project”. Using her sharp global observations of the current social and political landscapes in places like Kosovo, Afghanistan and Washington D.C., “The Hope Six…
The “Dark Rooms” That Inspire Bleeker [INTERVIEW]
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] With a band name Bleeker, one might have thoughts of some depressing, dystopian future, but after spending some time with Taylor Perkins (Vocals), Cole Perkins (Guitars), and Mike Van Dyk (Bass), my New York cynicism gave way…
Silversun Pickups Shine At The Hollywood Palladium [REVIEW]
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] Grammy nominated, Los Angeles bred, indie-alt band Silversun Pickups graced the Hollywood Palladium with their Better Nature Tour on Saturday, August 13, 2016. A wall-to-wall audience filled the standing room only general admission area with mostly hip…
Marc Baker’s Charismatic Twilight Concert Performance Delights Santa Monica [REVIEW+PHOTOS]
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THE REST OF OUR COVERAGE OF SANTA MONICA PIER’S TWILIGHT CONCERT SERIES Charisma. You can write a good song and you can produce a good recording, but if your performance lacks charisma … the stuff that…
Alexandra Savior Takes A Charming Bite Out Of The Hotel Cafe
HOLLYWOOD, CA– Once again, The Hotel Cafe welcomed Portland’s siren songstress Alexandra Savior to one of their stages. During her last performance at the Hollywood venue, her co-writer, and Arctic Monkey’s frontman, Alex Turner showed up to play guitar and this time, there were a handful…
Sufjan Stevens’ Genius Was Breathtaking To Behold At The Hollywood Bowl
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] On the evening of August 7th, I attended a life-altering performance at the Hollywood Bowl. For years, I had dreamed to see Sufjan Stevens in concert. This would be the night when that dream became a reality. I slowly climbed up…
The Wait Was Worth It; The Avalanches’ “Wildflower” Is Exuberant Brilliance [LISTEN]
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] Since I Left You, The Avalanches’ 2000 debut full-length, was essentially a CD-length testament to the pleasures of plunderphonics. Over the course of the 900+ samples extracted from impossibly obscure sources (the album was notably delayed when…
The Last Shadow Puppets Gave Everything We’ve Come To Expect at The Observatory, San Diego [REVIEW+PHOTOS]
[twitter style=”horizontal” float=”left”] [fbshare type=”button” width=”100″] [pinterest count=”horizontal”] Friday night at The Observatory in North Park, San Diego, The Last Shadow Puppets performed their second to last US date before heading off to Europe. While San Diego isn’t the most fertile ground for music fandom…
